HAUNTED HIGH - VIDEO: NEW MOVIE PREMIERING SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2012 AT 9/8C ON SYFY
An unlikely earthquake shocks the students and faculty at Helville High. It's the weekend before Homecoming and the kids planning the event are stuck at school as a result of the quake. After the School Board decides that the quake was due to a gas leak in the basement - the Homecoming party will go ahead as planned.
Unknown to all, the earthquake released spirits that have been trapped in the walls of the school for years who immediately possess Principal Spiro (Mike Kimmel) and other faculty and students. An aftershock turns the Glee Club's big practice dance number into mayhem, and the school is on lockdown - no way in or out. There are eight kids stuck inside the school who start to realize that their teachers are not who they used to be! The paranormal incidents at first seem funny, and add. Then things get decidedly tense as students find themselves trapped by the ghosts with no way out. In order to defeat them, they must become unlikely teammates, inventing clever ways to resolve the school's secret urban legend.
Cast includes M.C. Gainey, Lauren Pennington, Shawn C. Phillips, Danny Trejo, Jonathan Baron, Gabe Begneaud, Charisma Carpenter, Marc Donato, Sergio Figueroa, Stephanie Fischer, Griff Furst, Dana Michelle Gourrier, Danielle Greenup and Mike Kimmel.
Samantha Paul was supposed to be planning her daughter Rachel Beckwith's birthday party. Instead, she was in Tigray, Ethiopia, pumping water from the wells built in Rachel’s memory. It was the dream her little girl never got the chance to see come true.
"She wouldn't believe it, she'd be like awestruck," Paul told NBC News via Skype from Tigray. The Seattle mom herself was awestruck, after seeing the new wells, the exultant smiles, and feeling the love the villagers had for her Rachel.
It began one Sunday after church. Rachel excitedly told her mom about a man from charity:water who had visited her Sunday school class. He told them how he’d given up his birthday celebration. Instead, he’d asked his friends and family to donate to his charity that provided clean drinking water to people in Africa. Rachel wanted to do the same.
"No party, no big presents,” Paul recalled. “She just wanted people to donate to her charity water campaign."
Her sacrifice came as no surprise to Paul. This was the same girl who’d cut off her long hair to donate to Locks of Love when she was merely 5 years old. She planned to do it again as soon as her hair was long enough.
So when Rachel heard that there were kids in Africa without access to clean water she set a goal of $300 and got to work spreading the word. By the time she turned 9, she’d raised $280. She vowed to do better the next year. But next year never came.
A few weeks later, Rachel was in a car accident. Doctors said her prognosis was grim. As she lay in her hospital bed, Samantha and her family were astonished to discover word of her accident had spread, and that her charity:water campaign had blown past its $300 goal.
... Rachel, who did not live to see her modest campaign succeed beyond her wildest dreams, ultimately raised $1.26 million dollars. That was enough to fund 149 wells in several communities in Ethiopia.
A year after her daughter’s death, Paul travelled to those very communities, to see for herself the results of her daughter’s sacrifice. She could not believe her eyes when she arrived at the first village.
“There were parades and signs and they had made special food for us,” she recalled. “They knew Rachel's story and they had pictures of her. They had been praying for her and praying for me...”
MAJOR CRIMES - TNT: 'BEFORE AND AFTER' - AIRS MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2012 AT 9/8C
As Raydor (Mary McDonnell) works to gain respect in the division, the Major Crimes crew works to crack the case of a brutal and complicated homicide. Meanwhile, Raydor tries to supervise Rusty (Graham Patrick Martin); and Provenza (GW Bailey) struggles to accept all the changes in the department.
Guest stars include Jonathan Del Arco, Ransford Doherty, Lesli Margherita, Jenn Proske, Daniel Sobieray, Steve Tom and Haley Webb.